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common
Hummingbird Hawk-moth
Macroglossum stellatarum
- Habitat
- Open meadows and gardens across Europe, North Africa, and temperate Asia
- Wingspan
- 45 mm
- Order
- Lepidoptera · Sphingidae
Weird but real
It hovers at flowers beating its wings ~80 times a second and even hums, so people swear they saw a tiny hummingbird.
Why it's cool
A day-flying moth that convergently reinvented the hummingbird, proving evolution will happily build the same trick twice.
